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As of 2024, 45 actors and actresses have received two or more Academy Awards in acting categories. Katharine Hepburn holds the record with four Oscars (all Best Actress).
Quinn won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for 1952, making him the first Mexican-American to win an Oscar. It was not to be his lone appearance in the winner's circle: he won his second Supporting Actor Oscar in 1957 for his portrayal of Paul Gauguin in Vincente Minnelli 's biographical film of Vincent van Gogh , Lust for Life (1956 ...
- Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn is the leader of the pack when it comes to winning Oscars for acting. She has four of them, and they are all Best Actress performances.
- Daniel Day-Lewis. Lewis has gotten real bang for his buck. Hepburn starred in dozens of movies, while Day-Lewis is more selective. He’s been nominated only six times, but he’s won three Oscars for Best Actor.
- Meryl Streep. The Academy loves Streep. She’s been nominated a whopping 21 times for her acting work. Nobody else has more than 12. All those nominations have resulted in three Oscars.
- Jack Nicholson. Nicholson has more nominations than any male actor, with 12. He got his first Best Actor for 1975's “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and won a second for “As Good as It Gets”at the 1998 awards ceremony.
The first film to win two acting awards was It Happened One Night (1934), which won Best Actor and Best Actress at the 7th Academy Awards. The most recent film to win at least two acting awards was Oppenheimer (2023), which won Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor at the 96th Academy Awards.
The win made Rainer the first two-time Oscar winner in an acting category and the first to win consecutive acting awards (Spencer Tracy, her distaff honoree for Captains Courageous (1937) would follow her as a consecutive acting Oscar winner the next year, and Walter Brennan, Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner for Come and Get It (1936) the ...
Educating Rita (1983), Blame It on Rio (1984) and Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) (for which he won his first Oscar) were highlights of the 1980s, while more recently Little Voice (1998), The Cider House Rules (1999) (his second Oscar) and Last Orders (2001) have been widely acclaimed.
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